Head Quarters DeLancy's Mill

14th Nov[embe]r 1776.

After Orders 1/2 past 4.

The 16th and 17th Dragoons will furnish a Patrole [sic] of an Officer and 16 Men each on the road to West Chester, and in the White Plain Road, at about half a Mile from Head Quarters.

British Orderly Books: Sir William Howe, Commander in Chief

September 26, 1776 - June 2, 1777

[Captain Henry Knight, Aide-de-Camp to General Howe]

[New York Historical Society Collection, Mss. page 97]